General Reading List
Books for Parents/Professionals
Books for Children
Books for Teens
Our staff has compiled the following list of books to aid you in healing, in understanding, and to help you or someone you love cope with the suicide loss of a loved one.
For books for Parents & Professional, Teens or Children, please see the above links for book recommendations under those categories.
On Suicide & Grief
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison
Buy this book on Amazon »
No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of a Loved One, by Carla Fine
Buy this book on Amazon »
Dying To Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After A Suicide, by Beverly Cobaine
Buy this book on Amazon »
Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide, by Christopher Lukas
Buy this book on Amazon »
My Son…My Son…: A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss, or Suicide, by Iris Bolton
Buy this book on Amazon »
When A Man Faces Grief/A Man You Know Is Grieving, by James E. Miller
Buy this book on Amazon »
A Grief Like No Other: Surviving the Violent Loss of Someone You Love, by Kathleen O’Hara
Buy this book on Amazon »
A New Normal: Learning to Live with Grief and Loss, by Darlene Cross MS MFT
Buy this book on Amazon »
The Construction of Meaning Following Parental Suicide: Grief of children following parental suicide, by Dorothy Ratnarajah
Buy this book on Amazon »
The Forgotten Mourners: Sibling Survivors of Suicide, by John’s Sister
Buy this book on Amazon »
When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter, by Judith R. Bernstein, Ph.D.
Buy this book on Amazon »
The Worst Loss: How Families Heal from the Death of a Child, by Barbara D. Rosof
Buy this book on Amazon »
Life After the Death of My Son: What I’m Learning, by Dennis L. Apple
Buy this book on Amazon »
A Broken Heart Still Beats: after Your Child Dies, by Anne McCracken
Buy this book on Amazon »
The Mourning Book: The Most Comprehensive Resource Offering Practical and Compassionate Advice on Coping With All Aspects of Death & Dying, by Helen Fitzgerald
Buy this book on Amazon »
A Guide For The Bereaved Survivor, by Robert Baugher, Ph. D.
Buy this book on Amazon »
After Suicide: A Ray of Hope for Those Left Behind, by E. Betsy Ross
Buy this book on Amazon »
After The Darkest Hour, The Sun Will Shine Again: A parent’s guide to coping with the loss of a child, by Elizabeth Mehren
Buy this book on Amazon »
After The Death Of A Child, by Ann K. Finkbeiner
Buy this book on Amazon »
Aftershock: Help, Hope and Healing in the Wake of Suicide, by Candy Neely Arrington
Buy this book on Amazon »
An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, by Kay Redfield Jamison
Buy this book on Amazon »
Have you found another book helpful? Let us know and we will add it to our list.
Please send an email to Michele@SOSLsd.org
News
-
Loss of a Son and a Brother
Camille joined the SOSL Board quietly and cautiously in 2005, just months after she lost her son, Brett, to suicide. Camille lost her brother, Joseph, to suicide in 1977. As she became more Read More »
